Hanscom v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Ekeoe to review a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-paca county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. This was a prosecution for perjury. It appeared on the-trial that on the night of October 7, 1882, Henry 0. Mead, a banker of Waupaca, Wisconsin, was murdered by shooting,, in his bank building at Waupaca, by some unknown persons.
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Ekeoe to review a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-paca county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. This was a prosecution for perjury. It appeared on the-trial that on the night of October 7, 1882, Henry 0. Mead, a banker of Waupaca, Wisconsin, was murdered by shooting,, in his bank building at Waupaca, by some unknown persons. In 1892 an indictment was found against Samuel Stout,. Edwin C. Bronson, and Charles A. Pryor for such murder;, and they were tried at Waupaca in the months of June and July, 1893, and acquitted. The plaintiff in error was a witness upon the trial. At the time of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, J.
The first contention made by the plaintiff in error is that the testimony which is claimed to have been perjured was entirely immaterial to the issue tried in the *277murder action. It is said in this connection that it was entirely immaterial in that case whether Hanscom was in Wau-paca or in Iola on the night of the murder, or whether he was in the Odd Fellows’ Lodge or the candy store, or who was with him, or what he was doing. Strictly speaking, none of these facts hy themselves alone tend directly to prove the guilt or innocence of Stout, Bronson, or Pryor, but they are not necessarily…
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